student assignment committee meeting will be /hraorbging at the impact of the inclusive policies on a student assignment and we hope to have a good public dialogue on that. >> thank you. >> i wanted to say this is long overdue and it's about time we did this. and that also i'd like this to sort of be this idea that every student is a general ed student, that we also look at other areas in our district -- our pathways, emersion programs and hopefully we can get it integrated there and truly an inclusive school district. >> i'm going to go last unless there's any other comments on this item before we vote. this to me, is extremely personal and partly because i'm a parent of a child with a disability and when i first became a parent in this district, it was very common to be -- my

daughter, we were told, oh, well, she can go to those schools, but she can't go to those schools. i did have educators tell me they didn't have the training to work with her. a lot of fear about what do i do. i don't have the training, i don't understand what to do. this is -- it feels like such an achievement that it's underscoring our achievement and to educate all of our students. that doesn't mean educators don't need support to work with various students, but all of our students have needs, so it's tearing down the wall between you have this label and you don't. i'm just very grateful to doctor blanco, to our superintendent who has just brought about a transformation in the way that we think about

educating students with disabilities. i'm very grateful and emotional about this. thank you everybody. >> roll call. >> miss lee >> yes. >> mr. haney? >> yes. >> seven i's. >> okay. we're going to move on to the discussion of an approval of a revised public education expenditure plan. this item was moved and seconded on march 12. vice president fewer, can you give

us a report from the committee as a whole where we discussed this proposal. >> we heard this as a committee. the board had raised many questions, i believe those questions were answered via email. i believe you received an updated version of the budget amended. would you give us the most updated information about the budget on this because we're looking at a budget with a different money amount. i think there's been some new information. >> if you don't mind i'm going to make a couple of statements and then i'll punt. >> that's fabulous. >> one of the interesting conversations i had with officials in china was explaining the whole process of a democratic process in education and how it works.

during the committee of the whole session, i was actually meeting with some chinese officials and explaining to them how the democratic process works and it was very timely as i was getting updates because i was able to call this wonderful thing that we call the public education enrichment fund and how citizens vote to support public schools. they do not because they're obligated to, but because they have this overwhelming responsibility to schools. following the presentation to you at the committee as a whole on april 2, every spring the controller's office -- there's a constant monitoring of the funding source and the funding balances and on april 2, as coincidence would have it, we received a new estimate that was verified from the controller's office. the new

estimate we received on that day is 1.15 million dollars higher than the amount that was presented at the april 2 committee as a whole and that's good news because that brings the total for our piece to almost 51 million for this 2013, 2014 school year. that's good news. we haven't been able to say publically for many years that we're getting additional funding. this represents an increase of 16 million dollars over last year's allocation. this increase is because the public education enrichment fund would be fully funded by the city's ago gait discretionary revenue. and that went up with funding rising accordingly. we want to thank the mayor for not pulling the trigger, which also lent significant dollars for what we're able to allocate, so long story short, you have a different total based on this ongoing refreshing of the

numbers and that's why you're seeing additional funding. we've wasted no time and the board's direction to us and feedback is fully incorporated into these additional funding revenues to really be able to incorporate what the board said to us as a /kpheult committee as a whole. represent lee, would you like to add more to that. >> thank you. i'll make two comments and i'll punt to others who may have more information along these lines. i wanted to add two points to what superintendent just mentioned. so the specific methodology that is in question is the percentage change that is -- that is what is in the charter that the /proep

appropriation en-- this is based on the actual change in the overall city's revenues and based on that there are different points in time at which the controllers office estimates what that change will be. so we're in fiscal year 12, 13 now. the one before you is for 13, 14. so there are different points of time within each year that the controller's office will provide information that serves as a basis for the district to prepare its spending plan and actually it's trued up based on actual revenues. that's the background information. specifically to the timing of the developments of when we got

this information, miss fleming -- we know this is released from the controller's office and with that knowledge miss fleming was very aware to get information up to the day of the meeting, so the timing was not optimal because it would have been better to have that information before the spending plan was produced and developed that you considered and took up at your committee as a whole meeting during the last week, but it is good that we have that information now and it was available in time for this revised spending plan to be developed with that knowledge and especially the timing was fortunate in being able to incorporate the commissioner's feedback that you shared last week. >> if i can also add from the committee of the whole that we

had assisted the community advisory committee also present to us their recommendations and i believe we had a discussion around a philosophical difference about where we should -- should the peace fund be funding initiatives or should it be delving deeper into what they've already done. something that probably we'll have to discuss in the future. i think that this is very timely, this money. we are looking at a budget of 49 million and i think they would have liked to seen more monies put into restorative practices and peer resources. colleagues, if i've missed

anything, please feel free to add. commissioner wynn. >> well, are we just reporting or... >> yeah. then we have to do the reading and -- yeah. does that complete your report. now i'm going to ask you to read the recommendation. you don't have to read the whole resolution, but just the recommendation. >> my name is kathy fleming and reading into the peek resolution number 133-12 sp 1 approval of a revised education enrichment fund expenditure fund for school year 2013, 2014 and skipping down to the therefore be it resolved clauses. this will be revised and presented as a committee as a whole on april 22, 2013 and adopted on april 9, 2013. and

that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district approves the revised budget for the public education enrichment fund spending plan for the 13, 14 school year after examining the recommendations from the staff and community advisement on peef. the superintendent has requested to inform the sfusd school board and the board of supervisors that such amendments may occur. the end. >> thank you miss fleming. >> there are no public speakers signed up for this item so we will move right on to board comments. commissioner wynn. >> thank you. so i see that

some minimal changes have been made, which is, i think, in response to what the board members discussed, which i'm pleased to see. but i also have two things i want to say. i think over time -- a couple of things at the meeting last week i did mention in a few areas that it seemed to me it will take time for these programs to evolve and change. i want to express a small amount of frustration in the way this happens every year. that we get something that's already pretty hard to change. the kind of -- oh, we'd like a little built here, there, move a little bit. that's all we really do. and i think the time should come, especially since we're looking forward to a reauthorization, when the board should have a discussion

at some time about the priorities so we had a big discussion about what student support means. there's a lot of presumption and earlier during the time that it was passed and our discussion over the years, that it means social and emotional support services that are not academic. and now the question of support for academic initiatives is before us and i am inclined to say that i'm supportive of the budget we have now and i think that means i'm saying okay, i think we should see what this looks like. see if we can kick start some of these things, but i don't think we have had a discussion about what we need. about academic support and if we think this is the right money to do that. as i said last week, and i will reiterate that in part because, just like we have youth money from the

third third, which is thankfully in a time of horrible crisis. i think over time in resent years what i've seen is that this seems to be kind of automatic pilot process where the priorities are set and we have a process that the community advisory committee goes through and we just say -- and the administration makes some recommendations. i understand we get that same information, but it's not a discussion about policy and where we should go. i think we should move in that direction. the last thing i'll say is that some of those things -- i'm happy to see two things. i'll

make reference to -- one is the page four. this chart that shows in the next year that 10 /#0* percent of the elementary school will be receiving p funded program support, but i also am a little taken aback by the kind of split of 40, 30 and 30 in the slam distribution. i raise the question, and i any our commitment to the people of san francisco. i think their bottom-line expectation is that every kid will have music and art. there's a very broad and not distinct division between those things because art is

hard to define. i also am saying that because i know there's a big capacity issue, i know you can't go from nothing to twice as much without taking developmental time to work on that. but i think part of our discussion needs to be what it actually looks like, do we think every student actually is getting those things and is that distribution the way it should be in the future? so that's really all i want to say. i will just take the last second to say the same things i said last week -- that i'd like to look at the priorities that i'd like to talk about in the future. i'm mostly saying i think this work is good, but i think we need to be careful that we do this deliberatively and with planning and not just let it happen. and i think there's a slight feeling of that, but i want to also

express my /praoerbs to appreciation to the staff for the really good work that's been done. >> any other comments? >> thank you. i want to echo what commissioner wynn just said in regards to the protess. -- process. i think that was heard loud and clear at our committee as a whole. i think on the front end of this process, the superintendent and other leadership need to understand what the board's -- even though i believe we have the same priorities, i think

it's a little different for some board members and staff. i think we need to re-examine the piece process. not only just between the government team, but even for the committee that advises us because i know specifically that commissioner wynn had helped myself redo a purpose resolution for them. and how they've worked through that and are working on that, i don't know if it's still fully operating as the board envisioned so that's a conversation to be had. so i think there are places in the process -- in the overall process that we should re-examine and i think i heard that very loud and clear as the committee of a whole, but i

also heard that out in the community and again, that's also something that i think the pack members would know so i take responsibilities for not having appointees on that committee yet. i strongly want to emphasize us re-examining the process of the board of education and executive level staff and how we bring the proposals to the foreground. i would like to get on that as soon as possible before we get on another round. secondly, i want to thank the staff for taking consideration and making changes that were so strongly

expressed at the meeting. i do want to see more money to the things i believe are highly valued and that is peer resources. i think the amount of money that was add eded i'm grateful for. i'd like to see more and to figure out how that can happen over time. we're at this process so i am accepting i guess and it's a reluctance acceptance. it's reluctant that i'm accepting the increase. i think if we had more money, which we did have more money, it could be put here because it didn't have a place to go before. that's my perspective. why not add it to these places? i'm happy to see

restorative practices has an increase. i think their level of activity in the district and the desire for their work at every school site out in the community -- it's an ongoing plea to have restorative practices in our school district, expanded throughout schools, expanded in the community. so when there's that request over and over again, and that was stated at the committee, how do we support that? how do we make certain that happens? i know we've done so here with this extra money, but i believe this is something that cannot fall off our radar. and as new monies come to our district, what can we support? i've heard that question. what do you need help with? i think we need to tell those folks yes, we need stem. yes, we want to

ex/papbld and grow 21st century working, but there are things we know are working and people are asking for them. school sites are asking, communities are asking. we need to put money there and expand that work. and we know it keeps kids in the classroom and /pweulgdz relationships between teachers and students and families and i believe that's what teachers got in this profession to do. have relationships with their students and expand relationships. as we talk about being purposeful and how we apply our money, this is one of the appropriate answers for that question. and i want to make sure it's stated here very clearly and that that's what i want to see. and i've heard that over and over, time and time again. we have heard from

our parent advisory council, school sites, we've heard from community members that want to be a part of school site and make it a community hub, talk about restorative practices, so i can't say it enough that -- please when people can us what can they support, let's direct them to this because we know it works. we have data that says this is working. this is working in helping build the relationships and keeping the kids in the classroom to learn. so i want to make certain you all know that and it's very clear in the areas that i've been looking at that we need to support really with purpose. that should not be a question for us. we have data showing it's working and we have people demanding it. those are the two primary reasons that we should be doing it and helping

it grow. the last thing i want to talk about -- the social workers and school nurses came to prevent -- they came last year. knowing these folks are doing treeage across the dis/treubgtd and i district and i think that is part of the thing that i considered glue. they keep the school together. they help keep kids healthy and in the /khraz room classroom as well. so when parents don't know what to do and teachers don't know what to do when they're sick, we depend on our nurses to get our kids feeling

well. the on call nurse of the day -- am i saying that correctly? can you imagine a call and they have to support the entire district on the phone, school sites calling for help. if we can do something about that, this is another thing we need to think about supporting and help expanding. we have kids who get sick. can you imagine trying to be at school sick and get through the day and learn. these school nurses are a god send and i want to thank them for the work they do, but how can we make certain that this is representative of all schools instead of having to make a call of one person to support all schools. i'm hoping we can address that. those are my

comments. again, i'm really glad to see these /kh-pbgs that we suggested at the committee as a whole has been taken into deep consideration so looking for more money for peer resources, restorative practices and our student support professionals. and i see many folks, but at the top of my list are school nurses and i would like us to really address that. those are my thoughts right now. /ha*rpbg thank you president norton. >> i'd like to thank our staff and committee. i know you put in a lot of hours on this and time and energy, particularly with the increase of funds that we were able to get from the city so thank you for all your time and energy on that. i had a very different experience on this, which is that everything that we increased or that we spent a lot of time on, i felt

fell under our strategic plan and i think that's helped keep us together in terms of the way in which we manage the success of our students. i feel like there was a lot of energy put into building capacity and it was nice to see there was an increase in actual bodies, particularly around our arts and really seeing a number of physical bodies going into our schools so that all of our students would have access to the arts and that was really important to me as well. but the ct, restorative practice were also areas that i was really appreciative. there was funds in there that you heard us when we asked for an increase. but this is clearly an area that we're always talking about so as much as i

appreciate having the cow as an opportunity for us to share with you that these are the kind of places we would have liked to see dollars, it would have been nice to see the larger amount already in place instead of asking for it. but i am glad to see that in particular with the career tech education. be /tphaoeugs to have aeroperson in there to help us work that out. and that's been a long time coming. the other thing that's been really important to me around this process is that everything that we're putting out there in terms of the public dollars is that we're going to be accountable and we can show outcomes. i have think that everything has been recommended are all accountable and outcome driven additions to this budget. and i appreciate that

our reserve is where it is because not everybody can say that. there is something about having that cushion that allows us to be able to be a lot more innovative and think about what we really want to do for our kids without having that pressure of a low reserve. and then the last piece i want to say is around stem. the superintendent's been talking about this from the moment he became superintendent and i think that in addition to just bringing our own technology into the 21st century, this was part of the curriculum that he wanted to be able to provide to our kids. so i'm extremely supportive of the stem piece that has been put forward and from the -- i'm just going to speak for you for just a second because it's -- for him it's really seen. it's the arts,